LEO enhanced Global Navigation Satellite System (LeGNSS) for real-time precise positioning services

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) has been widely used in many geosciences areas with its Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) service. However, GNSS still has its own bottleneck, such as the long initialization period of Precise Point Positioning (PPP) without dense reference network. Recently, the concept of PNTRC (Positioning, Navigation, Timing, Remote sensing and Communication) has been put forward, where Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations are recruited to fulfill diverse missions. In navigation aspect, a number of selected LEO satellites can be equipped with a transmitter to transmit similar navigation signals to ground users, so that they can serve as GNSS satellites but with much faster geometric change to enhance GNSS capability, which is named as LEO constellation enhanced GNSS (LeGNSS). As a result, the initialization time of PPP is expected to be shortened to the level of a few minutes or even seconds depending on the number of the LEO satellites involved. In this article, we simulate all the relevant data from June 8th to 14th, 2014 and investigate the feasibility of LeGNSS with the concentration on the key issues in the whole data processing for providing real-time PPP service based on a system configuration with fourteen satellites of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), twenty-four satellites of the Global Positioning System (GPS), and sixty-six satellites of the Iridium satellite constellations. At the server-end, Precise Orbit Determination (POD) and Precise Clock Estimation (PCE) with various operational modes are investigated using simulated observations. It is found out that GNSS POD with partial LEO satellites is the most practical mode of LeGNSS operation. At the user-end, the Geometry Dilution Of Precision (GDOP) and Signal-In-Space Ranging Error (SISRE) are calculated and assessed for different positioning schemes in order to demonstrate the performance of LeGNSS. Centimeter level SISRE can be achieved for LeGNSS.     

PCE方法在空间实验室轨道预报误差分析中的应用

应用多项式混沌展开法(PCE)进行空间实验室轨道预报误差分析。通过构建PCE模型对轨道预报的不确定性传播过程进行近似，进而对轨道预报后航天器位置和速度的误差进行分析。分析了不同PCE模型阶数、预报时长以及样本点的数目对构建PCE模型的影响。综合考虑精度和计算效率，给出了适用于空间实验室轨道预报误差分析的PCE模型。将PCE方法与传统方法进行对比，结果表明PCE方法有较好的非线性近似能力，且计算效率高，验证了PCE方法应用于空间实验室轨道预报误差分析的有效性。     

斜撑离合器楔块线切割工艺优化及变质层分析

对目前国内PCE型斜撑离合器楔块制造工艺进行概述。为制造高质量的斜撑离合器楔块,提出了一种以慢走丝线切割为核心的楔块加工工艺,采用正交方法对线切割电参数进行了匹配实验,采用扫描电镜对线切割试样表面进行分析。实验结果表明,影响线切割表面粗糙度的因素顺序为脉宽、休止时间、伺服倍率、起始电压,线切割表面存在结构疏松、含Cu和Zn元素、厚度约为15~20μm的变质层。